WAWA/WeAreWideAwake is my Public Service to America as a muckracker who has journeyed seven times to Israel Palestine since June 2005.
WAWA is dedicated to confronting media and governments that shield the whole
truth.

We who Are Wide
Awake are compelled by the "fierce urgency of Now" [Rev MLK, Jr.] to raise
awareness and promote the human dialogue about many of the crucial issues of our
day: the state of our Union and in protection of democracy, what life is like
under military occupation in Palestine, the Christian EXODUS from the Holy Land,
and spirituality-from a Theologically Liberated Christian Anarchist
POV.

"Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all...and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave...a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils."George Washington's Farewell Address - 1796

We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that, among these, are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it. -July 4, 1776. The Declaration of Independence

December 29, 2009: The Good out of the Misery in Gaza: Love in Action and Global Conscience

December 27, 2009 marked the first
anniversary of the beginning of 'Operation Cast Lead,’ Israel’s 22-day assault
on Hamas and all the captive innocents in Gaza.

Israel’s assault on Gaza killed 1,400 people
and a third were children.

Israel’s war on Gaza injured over 5,300 and destroyed over 10,000 buildings and 4,000 homes.

“Operation Cast Lead” rendered
nearly 72,000 innocent civilians homeless and most all of them still endure in
tents or in the ruins of what had been their homes.

The already impoverished, mostly refugee
population, were assaulted with white phosphorous bombs that destroyed the
infrastructure of civil society, including homes, hospitals, water wells,
sewage systems, farms, police stations, the Islamic University of Gaza, the
Ministry of Education, the American International School and UNRWA schools, one
of which had been sheltering innocent civilians.

While world leaders and the mainstream media
turn a blind eye to the ongoing misery in Gaza, internationals with compassion
and of conscience have converged in Cairo motivated by love and in the pursuit
of justice.

Gratitude maybe the highest expression of
love, but it just maybe the sacrificial love in action being expressed by the thoughtful,
committed activists who have converged in Cairo that could light the fire for
real change and be the good to come out from the misery in Gaza.

Hundreds
of activists who had already traveled on their dime and given up their time to bring
some much needed humanitarian aid to the innocents in Gaza and to participate
in the Gaza Freedom March have now also given up food.

Because
the Egyptian government has denied over 1,300 nonviolent international
activists entry into Gaza, hundreds of them began a hunger strike on December
28, 2009. Among them is Heddy Epstein, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor who is
part of a delegation of participants from 43 countries who
committed to nonviolent march from northern Gaza to the Erez checkpoint in
Israel on this New Year’s Eve to demand an end to the siege on the Gaza Strip.

In
1939, when Heddy Epstein was 14, her parents sent her to England, but they
perished in Auschwitz in 1942. After World War II, Epstein worked as a research
analyst at the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi doctors who performed medical
experiments on concentration camp inmates. After moving to America, Epstein
became an activist for peace and social justice causes. She said, "It is
important to let the besieged Gazan people know they are not alone. I want to
tell the people I meet in Gaza that I am a representative of many people in my
city and in other places in the US who are outraged at what the US, Israeli and
European governments are doing to the Palestinians and that our numbers are growing.”

Among
those growing numbers are people of many and deep faith, atheists and agnostics
who have united to do something about the misery endured by the innocent in
Gaza.

The
Gaza Strip has been under an illegal siege ever since Israel
closed all of Gaza's borders in June 2007, and trapped 1.5 million civilians; half of them children under
17 years old.

The United States directly supported
Israel’s deadly assault on the Gaza Strip for Israel used weapons paid for and supplied by the
United States during “Operation Cast Lead.”

U.S. F- 16s, hellfire missiles, and ammunition used by the Israeli
military devastated the Gaza Strip for 22 days and U.S.A.
corporations also directly profited from “Operation Cast Lead.”

Caterpillar and Motorola equipment were used by the Israeli
military during its assault on the occupied Gaza Strip. American made Caterpillar
bulldozers demolished the civilian infrastructure throughout the Gaza Strip.

Amnesty International and the U.N. Fact Finding Mission on the
Gaza Conflict/The Goldstone Report documented that Motorola components were also
used in the bombs that Israel dropped. Human Rights Watch reported that shrapnel
with Motorola serial numbers were found at the site of bombed civilian
infrastructures in Gaza City.

The Goldstone Report thoroughly researched
accounts of crimes committed by both Israel and Hamas during “Operation Cast
Lead.”

There will never be peace without justice and justice requires
that Israel and Hamas both need to be held accountable for war crimes and
possible crimes against humanity.

Humanity is the quality of being human and
also humane.

Humane feelings, dispositions, and
sympathies are proven when humans do something to help relieve any in distress.

Humanity is expressed in kindness and
tenderness and both are the fruits birthed in love.

Dorothy
Day, a 20th century Christian anarchist, agitator of church, state
and media said, "Love is not the starving of whole populations. Love is
not the bombardment of open cities. Love is not killing.”

“Love is patient, love is kind. Love is not proud.
Love is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it
keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with THE
TRUTH! It always protects, it always trusts, always hopes, and always
perseveres. Love never fails.” 1 Corinthians 13

What a wonderful world it would be, if we all loved 'the other' as we love our self, family and friends.

What a beautiful world it could be when we all "Let our Conscience Be our Guide"- Jiminy Cricket

"HOPE has two children.The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it."-St. Augustine

"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." - Aquinas

Everyone has the right to freedom of
opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions
without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and
ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

" In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."-Mother Teresa

“You cannot talk like sane men around a peace table while the atomic bomb itself is ticking beneath it. Do not treat the atomic bomb as a weapon of offense; do not treat it as an instrument of the police. Treat the bomb for what it is: the visible insanity of a civilization that has ceased...to obey the laws of life.”- Lewis Mumford, 1946

The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership....a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures." - William Fulbright

“Any nation that year after year continues to raise the Defense budget while cutting social programs to the neediest is a nation approaching spiritual death.” - Rev. MLK

Establishment of Israel

"On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations." - May 14, 1948. The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel